"in the UK with their first five albums. The album is also considered the band's breakthrough in America. The single ""Do I Wanna Know?"" was the first song by the band to enter the ""Billboard"" Hot 100. ""AM"" is also one of the UK's best-selling vinyl albums of the decade, selling 73,000 units. AM has worldwide album sales over 3,500,000 copies sold. In an interview with Zane Lowe on BBC Radio 1, Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex Turner said that the album title was inspired by the Velvet Underground's 1985 compilation album ""VU"": ""I actually stole it from the Velvet Underground,"
"Alex Turner Alexander David Turner (born 6 January 1986) is an English musician, singer, songwriter and record producer. He is best known as the frontman and principal songwriter of the rock band Arctic Monkeys, with whom he has released six albums. Turner has also recorded with his side-project The Last Shadow Puppets and as a solo artist. Raised in High Green, a suburb of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, Turner is the only child of two teachers. When he was sixteen, he and three friends formed Arctic Monkeys. Their debut album, ""Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not"" (2006), became"
"using a Gibson SG standard on stage live at Glastonbury on June 2013. Jamie Cook Jamie Robert Cook (born 8 July 1985) is an English guitarist and songwriter. He is best known as the lead guitarist and a founding member of the indie rock band Arctic Monkeys, with whom he has recorded six studio albums. Originally a next door neighbour of fellow band member Alex Turner, Cook and the other band members picked up their respective instruments and formed the Arctic Monkeys in 2001. He is the son of an engineer. He is the band's most outspoken member, going on"
"Jamie Cook Jamie Robert Cook (born 8 July 1985) is an English guitarist and songwriter. He is best known as the lead guitarist and a founding member of the indie rock band Arctic Monkeys, with whom he has recorded six studio albums. Originally a next door neighbour of fellow band member Alex Turner, Cook and the other band members picked up their respective instruments and formed the Arctic Monkeys in 2001. He is the son of an engineer. He is the band's most outspoken member, going on record as saying he ""fucking hates the [print] news"" and defending the band's"
"Matt Helders Matthew Helders (born 7 May 1986) is an English drummer, vocalist and songwriter. He is best known as a founding member of the indie rock band Arctic Monkeys, with whom he has recorded six studio albums. In 2015, Helders collaborated with Iggy Pop and Queens of the Stone Age's Josh Homme and Dean Fertita to record Pop's latest studio album, ""Post Pop Depression"" (2016). Helders has said that he ended up playing drums as ""that was the only thing left. When we started the band none of us played anything. We just put it together. They all had"
"Nick O'Malley Nicholas Edward O'Malley (born 5 July 1985) is the bass guitarist and backing vocalist of English band Arctic Monkeys. O'Malley states that he picked up the bass guitar at the age of 16, after ambitions to play the drums and guitar were rejected by his father. Before joining Arctic Monkeys, O'Malley played the bass guitar in local garage rock band The Dodgems. O'Malley was drafted in as a temporary replacement for bassist Andy Nicholson when the latter announced he would not make the band's North America tour in May 2006,<ref name=""NME 25/5""></ref> while working at Asda.<ref name=""nickomalleyisabeautifulman.tumblr.com 25/5""></ref>"
"Arctic Monkeys tour history Arctic Monkeys are a four-piece indie rock band from Sheffield, England. Since signing for Domino Records in 2005, the band have gained popularity in many parts of the world, and have gradually progressed to playing larger venues. Following the release of ""I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor"" in October 2005, the band had a near-continuous touring schedule that culminated with performances at the Reading and Leeds Festivals. Following the release of their album, ""Favourite Worst Nightmare"", on 23 April 2007, the band began a series of tours that included a headline appearance at the"
"the Arctic Monkeys in their headline slot, to play on ""505"". Two further singles from the album, ""Taking Over"" and ""Better Than That"" were released in August and October 2013 respectively. In 2015, Kane collaborated with Mark Ronson on the opening track ""Johanna"" of the soundtrack to the film ""Mortdecai,"" contributing vocals. In September 2017, Kane sang in a Beatles tribute band named Dr. Pepper's Jaded Hearts Club Band. Other members included Muse singer and guitarist Matt Bellamy, Nine Inch Nails guitarist Ilan Rubin, and Zutons drummer Sean Payne. In March 2018, Kane told the Evening Standard his new album"
"an image of Turner's microphone with two bras hanging from it. R U Mine? ""R U Mine?"" is a song by the English indie rock band Arctic Monkeys. It features lyrics written by Arctic Monkeys vocalist and rhythm guitarist Alex Turner, as well as music composed by the entire band. The song was released as a digital download in the United Kingdom on 27 February 2012 and was released physically for the Record Store Day on 21 April 2012 on a limited edition double A-side purple 7"" vinyl along with new song ""Electricity"". The vinyl was limited to a run"
"tour. Although O'Malley was only expected to continue until Nicholson had fully recovered, Nicholson's departure from the band saw the announcement that O'Malley will become a full member of the band. As he became a full-time member, he stated in an interview with Q TV that he had known the band prior to him joining them: ""It never felt like such a big pressure thing."" Nick O'Malley Nicholas Edward O'Malley (born 5 July 1985) is the bass guitarist and backing vocalist of English band Arctic Monkeys. O'Malley states that he picked up the bass guitar at the age of 16,"
"Arctic Monkeys, The Prodigy and Ian Brown. They also appeared at the 2009 T in the Park Festival as second headliners in the King Tut's Wah Wah Tent. The band have also announced that they are releasing a new re-worked version of the classic debut hit St.Jude in mid 2018. They are touring this new remastered version at Manchester Arena and then the Royal Albert Hall. The band's second album ""Falcon"" was released on 22 February 2010 and has since gone on to achieve gold status. The album was preceded by a single ""You Overdid It Doll"" on 15 February"
"Former Arctic Monkeys members Arctic Monkeys are a four-piece band from Sheffield, England. Originally formed in 2002, the band has seen two of its members depart over the subsequent 5 years. An attendee of Stocksbridge High School, Andy was the only member of the original four to not live in the High Green district, residing in nearby Hillsborough, and this fact is featured in lyrics to the song ""Red Light Indicates Doors Are Secured"" – """"I said it's High Green mate – via Hillsborough – please"""". Nicholson played bass guitar, and was seen as """"the band wit, reliably swift with"
"Former Arctic Monkeys members Arctic Monkeys are a four-piece band from Sheffield, England. Originally formed in 2002, the band has seen two of its members depart over the subsequent 5 years. An attendee of Stocksbridge High School, Andy was the only member of the original four to not live in the High Green district, residing in nearby Hillsborough, and this fact is featured in lyrics to the song ""Red Light Indicates Doors Are Secured"" – """"I said it's High Green mate – via Hillsborough – please"""". Nicholson played bass guitar, and was seen as """"the band wit, reliably swift with"
"the Arctic Monkeys to not live in the High Green district, residing in nearby Hillsborough. Nicholson played bass guitar, and was seen as ""the band wit, reliably swift with a self-deprecating quip"". He played on ""Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not"" and the EPs ""Five Minutes with Arctic Monkeys"" and ""Who the Fuck Are Arctic Monkeys?"". The band announced in May 2006 that Nicholson would miss the band's forthcoming North America tour as he was suffering from """"fatigue following an intensive period of touring"""", and would be temporarily replaced by Nick O'Malley of The Dodgems while Nicholson"
"between his legs before the other three band members (Cook, Helders and O'Malley) also rise up out from the water. Crying Lightning ""Crying Lightning"" is a song by the English indie rock band Arctic Monkeys, released as the first single from their third album ""Humbug"". It was first played on Zane Lowe's show on BBC Radio 1 on 6 July 2009 and was then made available on iTunes to download the following day. Physical copies of the single were made available on 17 August, one week before the release of the album. The vinyl was made available in Oxfam shops"
"album debuted at number eight on the ""Billboard"" 200 chart, selling 47,000 units, of which 37,000 were in traditional album sales. Credits adapted from liner notes. Arctic Monkeys Additional musicians Technical Artwork Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino is the sixth studio album by English rock band Arctic Monkeys. It was released on 11 May 2018 by Domino Recording Company. The album was written by band frontman Alex Turner in 2016 on a Steinway Vertegrand piano in his Los Angeles home, and features a rich sound which embodies lounge pop, space pop, glam rock and psychedelic"
"the fastest-selling debut album in British history and is considered by ""Rolling Stone"" to be one of the greatest debut albums of all time. The band's subsequent studio albums, ""Favourite Worst Nightmare"" (2007), ""Humbug"" (2009), ""Suck It and See"" (2011), ""AM"" (2013) and ""Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino"" (2018), have experimented with desert rock, indie pop, R&B, and lounge music. Arctic Monkeys headlined Glastonbury Festival in both 2007 and 2013, and performed during the 2012 London Summer Olympics opening ceremony. Turner and Miles Kane have released two orchestral pop albums – ""The Age Of The Understatement"" (2008) and ""Everything You've"
"is unsatisfying and boring. The song peaked at number five on the UK Singles Chart, and was the 83rd best-selling song of 2007 in the United Kingdom. ""Fluorescent Adolescent"" is one of the band's most popular songs, and is frequently performed as a closer to their concerts. Kate Nash performed a cover of the song on 5 October 2007. It appears on ""Radio 1's Live Lounge – Volume 3"". The song has received a 9/10 rating from Planet Sound, becoming Arctic Monkeys' first single to do so since ""I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor"". The music video was"
"Arctic Monkeys in mid-2002. In the early days of the band, Helders has recalled that Turner ""wasn’t necessarily going to be the singer"" but was the obvious candidate for lyricist: ""I knew he had a thing for words."" Before playing a live show, the band rehearsed for a year in both Turner and Helders' garages and, later, at an unused warehouse in Wath. Turner gradually began to share lyrics with his bandmates. According to Helders' mother, who drove the teenagers to and from their rehearsal space three times a week: ""If they knew you were there, they would just stop"
"Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino is the sixth studio album by English rock band Arctic Monkeys. It was released on 11 May 2018 by Domino Recording Company. The album was written by band frontman Alex Turner in 2016 on a Steinway Vertegrand piano in his Los Angeles home, and features a rich sound which embodies lounge pop, space pop, glam rock and psychedelic pop, as well as elements of jazz. It is a major departure from the band's previous guitar-heavy work, being less accessible than its internationally successful predecessor, ""AM"" (2013). It was produced in"
"second album ""Favourite Worst Nightmare"". Death Ramps ""Death Ramps"" is an alias for British indie rock band Arctic Monkeys. They usually go under this name in collaboration with Miles Kane and fellow Sheffield artist Richard Hawley, and have released five tracks, all B-sides to Arctic Monkeys singles. Domino, their label, stated: ""Unfortunately, we're not allowed to tell you the true identity of the Death Ramps but needless to say they're a band with A Certain Romance (wink, wink)."" In an interview with ""AnotherMag"" in 2013, frontman Alex Turner stated: We used to ride our BMXs on these little hills in"
"Death Ramps ""Death Ramps"" is an alias for British indie rock band Arctic Monkeys. They usually go under this name in collaboration with Miles Kane and fellow Sheffield artist Richard Hawley, and have released five tracks, all B-sides to Arctic Monkeys singles. Domino, their label, stated: ""Unfortunately, we're not allowed to tell you the true identity of the Death Ramps but needless to say they're a band with A Certain Romance (wink, wink)."" In an interview with ""AnotherMag"" in 2013, frontman Alex Turner stated: We used to ride our BMXs on these little hills in the woods where we grew"
"Music Monthly"" and No. 53 out of 100 in ""NME"". He won the Best Solo Artist award at the 2007 and 2010 NME Awards. In 2015 he was awarded a further three accolades by NME, including Best Song for ""Zombie"". He has been nicknamed ""one man Arctic Monkey"". ""Canvas"" magazine has described him as ""like the bastard lovechild of Billy Bragg and Mike Skinner doing his best Joe Strummer impression"". Jamie T Jamie Alexander Treays (born 8 January 1986), better known by his stage name Jamie T, is an English singer-songwriter from Wimbledon, South London. Jamie T is currently signed"
"Eddie Argos Eddie Argos (born Kevin Macklin 25 October 1979) is the lead singer of English rock band Art Brut, and writer of comics. Born in Weymouth, England, Argos later moved to Poole, Dorset as a young child, and has subsequently written about the Martin Kemp-Welch School there (now St Aldhelm's Academy), in the song ""Martin Kemp-Welch Five-A-Side Football Rules!"" from the album ""Brilliant! Tragic!"". Argos lives in Berlin with his partner and their son. Argos is the lead singer of the rock band Art Brut, and sometimes plays the bass guitar in Keith TOTP. Argos is also the lead"
"Four Out of Five ""Four Out of Five"" is a song by English indie rock band Arctic Monkeys. It was released as the lead single from their sixth studio album, ""Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino"" (2018), on 13 May 2018, with an accompanying music video. Musically ""Four Out of Five"" has been described as glam rock, being compared to the works of David Bowie. The song is one of few on the album to feature a traditional chorus, and has been likened to the band's ""Suck It and See"" as well as ""Everything You've Come to Expect"" by Turner's side-project"
"in Sheffield in the 1970s called Violet May. A book documenting the store called ""Shades of Violet"" has been written by John Firminger and Gus Chapman and features an introduction by Sheffield singer-songwriter Richard Hawley, formerly of Sheffield acts longpigs and Pulp. The Violet May's frontman and lead vocalist Chris McClure was the disheveled face on the front cover of the 2006 debut Arctic Monkeys album ""Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not"", and is also the brother of Jon McClure, the lead singer and frontman of Sheffield act Reverend and The Makers. Chris McClure also appeared on"
"""AM"" and it debuted and peaked at number 11, while the album's third single, ""Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High?"", bested the chart placing again when it entered the UK charts at number eight. In 2018, the band released their sixth studio album, entitled Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino, which debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart. The album's most popular single, ""Four Out of Five"", debuted at number 18 on the UK Singles Chart. Arctic Monkeys discography British indie rock band Arctic Monkeys has released six studio albums, three extended plays (EPs) and twenty-three singles."
"of the group, his vocals have been featured on many of the band's songs. He often sings in response to or in harmony with lead singer Alex Turner, and sings lead vocals on ""D Is for Dangerous"", ""Brick by Brick"", and ""I.D.S.T."", as well as on parts of ""You Probably Couldn't See for the Lights but You Were Staring Straight at Me"", ""Who the Fuck Are Arctic Monkeys?"" and ""Teddy Picker"". Also, during two shows of the North American leg of the band's ""Humbug"" Tour, he sang an interpretation of Wham!'s ""Last Christmas"" during an encore performance of ""Fluorescent Adolescent""."
"a cover of Rihanna's ""SOS"". The band and a 16-piece orchestra played two intimate live shows as warm up sessions for Reading and Leeds Festivals 2008, at Portsmouth Guildhall and New Theatre Oxford. In October and November 2008, the band embarked on their first full headlining tour of the UK and US, which was generally well received by both fans and critics. On 3 February 2012, Miles Kane supported Arctic Monkeys at their Paris Olympia show. At the conclusion of the support slot, Alex Turner joined Miles Kane and his band to perform ""Standing Next to Me"". At Glastonbury 2013,"
"Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not is the debut studio album by English rock band Arctic Monkeys, released on 23 January 2006 by Domino Recording Company. The album surpassed Elastica's self-titled album to become the fastest selling debut album in British music history, shifting over 360,000 copies in its first week, and remains the fastest selling debut album by a band. It has since gone quintuple platinum in the UK. It is the only album to feature Andy Nicholson as bass player before he was replaced by Nick"
"Johanna Bennett Johanna Bennett (born 30 September 1984 in Peterborough, England) is an English musician. She was the frontwoman of the band Totalizer, whose demos were produced by Dirty Pretty Things guitarist Anthony Rossomando. The band played a couple of shows and folded in November 2007. Bennett co-wrote the Arctic Monkeys single ""Fluorescent Adolescent"" with her then-boyfriend Alex Turner. The song lyrics were developed during a word game while the couple were on holiday. Bennett earned a psychology degree at Goldsmiths, University of London. Bennett married Kings of Leon lead guitarist Matthew Followill in 2009; they live in Nashville, Tennessee."
"Chiefs (""Watching the people get lairy / is not very pretty, I tell thee"") caused some comment by people who were unaware that the word is still in use in the Yorkshire dialect. The use of the phrase ""tha knows"" has been widely used in various songs by Arctic Monkeys, a popular band from High Green, a suburb of Sheffield. Alex Turner, the band's lead singer, has also often replaced words with ""tha knows"" during live versions of the songs. His election to sing in his native Sheffield accent and their overall revival of the dialect has been met with"
"Arctic Monkeys' debut single ""I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor"", which replaced the group's 2005 single ""Push the Button"" at number one on the UK Singles Chart. Upon the recording of the B-side, the Sugababes said: ""When our bosses asked us to think of covers for the B-side, we knew which song we would all love to do."" Ben Thompson of ""The Observer"" praised Berrabah's ""bluesy rasp"" as a novelty, while Jimmy Draper of ""Time Out"" wrote: ""It transforms the punky rave-up into a disco stomper that could make even the staunchiest pop-hater get up and dance"". Critical"